Scott, Darlene, and I resolved to make another try today at a bird that has devoted most of its efforts, it seems, to eluding me. But this morning at the Patagonia Roadside Rest, we succeeded (or rather, Scott’s eyes succeeded). The now long-staying White-eyed Vireo made us wait only two hours before it began to [...]

Alan and I made a sunset visit to Arthur Pack Park yesterday, seeking the Gilded Flicker that had given him the slip this week. Sure enough, a fine male was feeding on the sand at the edge of the golf course, and we had great looks at a bird not all that easy to find [...]

The iron curtain is down, but the Russian language remains a serious obstacle for many birders to cross. For most of us, the old gray-bound volumes of Dementiev and Gladkov are the closest we’ve ever come to the ornithological literature of the now-former Soviet Union, and I can’t say that my early exposure to that [...]

I’ve ranted about this before, I know, but never, never turn in photographs or video of a potentially interesting bird without written notes!
Get a load of this:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bachman/mysterywarbler.html
 
 

Took a shot and birded the Cañada del Oro pond today near Catalina with Denis, Scott, Alan, and Darlene. It is still early in the season for that locality, which seems to come into its quite estimable own about a month from now, but we still ended up with nearly 50 species coming in to [...]